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SIL Unicode fonts

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A basic need to do any language work on the computer is a font that will display the needed characters. Fonts that come with your operating system may have a certain number of characters already, but the SIL fonts frequently have a wider variety of characters.

The Latin/Cyrillic fonts differ mostly in the typeface. Charis, Doulos and Gentium are serif fonts. Andika is a sans-serif typeface designed for new readers with easily distinguished letter forms.

 

Font Name

Script

Abyssinica SIL

Ethiopic

Andika

Latin/Cyrillic

Annapurna SIL Fonts

Devanagari

Charis SIL

Latin/Cyrillic

Dai Banna SIL Fonts

New Tai Lue

Doulos SIL

Latin/Cyrillic

Ezra SIL Hebrew Unicode Font

Hebrew

Galatia SIL

Greek

Gentium

Latin/Greek/Cyrillic

Gentium Plus

Latin/Greek/Cyrillic

Lateef

Arabic

The Mondulkiri Font Family

Khmer

Nuosu SIL

Yi

Padauk Font

Myanmar

Sophia Nubian

Coptic

Scheherazade

Arabic

Tai Heritage Pro

Tai Viet

Unicode BMP Fallback Font

all of BMP up to Unicode 5.1

 

Version

various

Developer

NRSI (Non-Roman Script Initiative)

Supported

SIL Status

Supported

Supported Operating Systems

Linux, Mac OS, Windows

Unicode Support

Yes

Suitable tasks

  • Keyboard special characters
  • With support for multiple scripts
  • With support for complex non-Roman scripts
  • Enable typing phonetic (IPA) data into other programs

Interface Language

English

License

OFL (SIL Open Font License)

Download Page

Website

User Group

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